Re: Display-based word wrapping

From:

Stefan Monnier

Subject:

Re: Display-based word wrapping

Date:

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:48:27 -0400

User-agent:

Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

>> I don't see much of a problem with it. That's what
>> define-obsolete-variable-alias is for, isn't it?
> Leaving these calls in place would generate plenty of byte-compiler
> warnings, unless we do defvaralias instead of
> define-obsolete-variable-alias. Anyway, isn't it a general policy to
> change the code in Emacs to use non-obsolete names?
Of course, but luckily we have a tool (Emacs) that can help us do the
search&replace for those cases that occur within Emacs's own files.
Still doesn't seem like a major problem.
Of course, we could also decide not to rename the variable. All I'm
after is to keep a single (3-state) variable rather than a pair of
boolean vars to choose between the 3 alternative ways to deal with long
lines.
Stefan